Passover

  1. Proper noun.  The eight-day Jewish festival of Pesach, commemorating the biblical story of Exodus, during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed.
  2. Proper noun.  The Christian holy day generally falling on the first day of the Jewish Passover.

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